Prof Debotosh Bhattacharjee – COMSYS Educational Trust

Member of the Trust

Prof. Debotosh Bhattacharjee, President

Prof. Debotosh Bhattacharjee is working as a full professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University with twenty-five years of experience.

His research interests pertain to the applications of machine learning techniques for Face Recognition, Gait Analysis, Hand Geometry Recognition, and Diagnostic Image Analysis. He has authored or coauthored more than 332 journals, conference publications, including several book chapters in the areas of Biometrics and Medical Image Processing. Six patents have been granted on his works.

Prof. Bhattacharjee has been granted sponsored projects by the Govt. of India funding agencies like the Department of Biotechnology(DBT), Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), and University Grants Commission(UGC) with a total amount of around INR 3 Crore.

For postdoctoral research, Dr. Bhattacharjee has visited different universities abroad like the University of Twente, The Netherlands; Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal; University of Bologna, Italy; ITMO National Research University, St. Petersburg, Russia; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK and Heidelberg University, Germany.

He is a life member of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE, New Delhi), the Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI), a senior member of IEEE (USA), and a fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology.

Website:

http://www.jaduniv.edu.in/profile.php?uid=672

RG or Scholar profile:

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=hI7_HFMAAAAJ&hl=en https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Debotosh_Bhattacharjee

Expert In:

Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning

Image Processing

Medical Image Processing

Face Recognition

Total Number of Publication: 290

No. of Journal Publication: 110

No. of Conference Publication: 140

No. of Book Chapter Publication: 40

Total Number of Patents: 4

Total Number of Ph. D. Thesis guidance: 17

Total Number of Projects Investigated: 12(Near about 64cr INR)

EXPERIENCE

TEACHING

From 01.03.2013 Professor in the Dept. of Computer Sc. & Engg. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

From 01.03.2010 to 28.02.2013 Associate Professor in the Dept. of Computer Sc. & Engg. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

From 01.03.2007 to 28.02.2010, Reader in the Dept. of Computer Sc. & Engg. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

From 01.09.2003 to 28.02.2007, Lecturer in the Dept. of Computer Sc. & Engg. University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

From 01.03.2003 to 31.08.2003, Asst. Prof. in the Dept. of Computer Sc. & Engg., Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology under West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India.

From 22.12.2000 to 28.02.2003, Asst. Prof. in Computer Sc. & Engg., International Institute of Information Technology, Salt Lake, Kolkata, India.

From 10.08.2000 to 21.12.2000, Sr. Lecturer in the Dept. of Computer Sc. & Engg., College of Engineering and Management, Kolaghat, India.

From 20.12.1999 to 09.08.2000, Lecturer in the Dept. of Computer Sc. & Engg., Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, India.

From 28.04.1997 to 17.12.1999, Lecturer in the Dept. of Computer Sc. & Engg., NERIST, Itanagar, India.

RESEARCH

Visiting Researcher at Northumbria University, United Kingdom for one month November/December 2018

Visiting Researcher at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia for one month June/July 2016

Visiting Researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal for two months December 2015-January 2016

Visiting Researcher at University of Bologna, Italy for one month June/July 2015

Visiting Researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal for one month June/July 2014

Visiting Researcher at Heidelberg University, Germany for one month June/July 2013

Postdoc at University of Twente, The Netherlands from Nov 2011 to May 2012

Ph. D. (Engg.) from Jadavpur University (India) in 2004

ADMINISTRATIVE

Involvement in Higher Education Policy Making (International)

11-16 May 2011: Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia Meeting at University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

16-20 October 2011: Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia Meeting at Kathmandu University, Kathmandu, Nepal

15-20 October 2012: Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia Meeting at University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

11-13 July 2013: Meeting for policy on higher education under ProDeJIP Program at Universite’ Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France

26-31 October 2013: Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia Meeting at Ateneo de Manila University Diliman and University of the Philippines Manila, Philippines

18-23 May 2014: Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia Meeting at Heidelberg University, Heildelberg, Germany

24-26 June 2015: Meeting for policy on higher education under ProDeJIP Program at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali, Rome, Italy

25-29 January 2016: Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia Meeting at University of Evora, Evora

FOREIGN VISIT

To attend Research Laboratory, Conferences and Meetings

Country visited	Duration	Organization/Place	Role/Purpose
Germany	23rd August 2009 to 29th August 2009	University of Koblenz, Koblenz	Summer School
Italy	11th May 2011 to 16th May 2011	University of Genoa, Genoa	Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia Meeting
Nepal	16th October 2011 to 20th October 2011	Kathmandu University, Kathmandu	Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia Meeting
Netherland	21st November 2011 to 11th May 2012	University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherland	Postdoc Research
Switzerland	22nd January 2012 to 28th January 2012	Zinal, Switzerland	Winter School
Vienna	9th April 2012 to 13th April 2012	Redzur-2012, Vienna Institute of Technology, Vienna	Paper Presentation
Poland	15th October 2012 to 20th October 2012	University of Warsaw, Warsaw	Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia Meeting
USA	2nd February 2013 to 10th February	SPIE Conference, San Francisco, California	Paper Presentation
Germany	11th June 2013 to 10th July 2013	Heidelberg University, Heildelberg	Visiting Researcher
Spain	23rd June 2013 to 28th June 2013	Benicássim, Valencia	Summer School
France	11th July 2013 to 13th July 2013	Universite' Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux	Meeting for policy on higher education

PROJECTS

Funded by National and International Funding Agencies

ERASMUS MUNDUS MOBILITY WITH ASIA WEST 2009 COORDINATOR: UNIVERSITE DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, FRANCE

Funded by: European Commission, Brussels
Role: Local Coordinator, Jadavpur University

Budget: 24,73,850 Euro
Status: Completed
Duration: 3 years
Period: 2009-2012

ERASMUS MUNDUS MOBILITY WITH ASIA WEST 2011, COORDINATOR: UNIVERSITE DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, FRANCE

Funded by: European Commission, Brussels
Role:Local Coordinator, Jadavpur University

Budget: 19,99,325 Euro
Status: Completed
Duration: 3 years
Period: 2011-2014

ERASMUS MUNDUS MOBILITY WITH ASIA WEST 2013, COORDINATOR: UNIVERSIDADE DE EVORA, PORTUGAL

Funded by: European Commission, Brussels
Role: Local Coordinator, Jadavpur University

Budget: 24,99,925 Euro
Status: Completed
Duration: 3 years
Period: 2013-2016

FACIAL EXPRESSION ANALYSIS FOR PREDICTING SECURITY THREATS

Funded by: UGC unassigned grant at JU
Role: Principal Investigator

Budget: 50,000 INR
Status: Completed
Duration: 2 years
Period:: 2007-2009

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF FACIAL THERMOGRAM TECHNOLOGY FOR BIOMETRIC SECURITY SYSTEM

Funded by: UGC, Govt. of India
Role: Principal Investigator

Budget: 10,76,834 INR
Status: Completed
Duration: 3 years
Period: 2010-2013

DEVELOPMENT OF 3D FACE RECOGNITION TECHNIQUES BASED ON RANGE IMAGES

Funded by: DIT, MCIT, Govt. of India
Role: Principal Investigator

Budget: 66,21,250 INR
Status: Completed
Duration: 3 years
Period: 2013-2016

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNIQUES FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT AND BREAST CANCER DETECTION USING INFRARED IMAGING

Funded by: DBT, Govt. of India
Role: Principal Investigator

Budget: 13,55,000 INR
Status: Completed
Duration: 3 years
Period: 2014-2017

TELEMEDICINE COMPATIBLE COMPUTERIZED HEMOCYTOMETER ANALYZER FOR DENGUE DETECTION AND TREATMENT

Funded by: DBT, MST, Govt. of India
Role: Principal Investigator

Budget: 23,40,645 INR
Status: Completed
Duration: 3 years
Period: 2014-2017

DESIGN OF A MULTIMODAL BIOMETRIC SYSTEM FOR VARIOUS SECURITY AND FORENSIC APPLICATIONS

Funded by: UPE-II, Phase-I, Govt. of India
Role: Co- Principal Investigator

Budget: 13,63,200 INR
Status: Completed
Duration: 3 years
Period: 2012-2015

MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR VARIOUS SECURITY AND MEDICAL APPLICATIONS

Funded by: PURSE-II, Govt. of India
Role: Co- Principal Investigator

Budget: 37,00,200 INR
Status: Completed
Duration:: 4 years
Period:: 2015-2019

DESIGN OF A MULTIMODAL BIOMETRIC SYSTEM FOR VARIOUS SECURITY AND FORENSIC APPLICATIONS

Funded by: UPE-II, Phase-II, Govt. of India
Role: Co- Principal Investigator

Budget: 13,70,000 INR
Status: Completed
Duration: 4 years
Period: 2015-2019

DEVELOPMENT OF OBJECT DETECTION TECHNIQUES FROM DEGRADED COMPLEX VIDEO SEQUENCES DUE TO DYNAMIC VARIATIONS OF SCENES BY DIFFERENT ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS FOR SECURITY AND SURVEILLANCE

Funded by: DRDO, Govt. of India
Role: Principal Investigator

Budget: 18,19,000 INR
Status: Ongoing
Duration: 3 years
Period: 2018-2021

PUBLICATIONS

For full list of publication, click on: List of publications

Some of the Notable Publications

TWO-STAGE HUMAN VERIFICATION USING HANDCAPTCHA AND ANTI-SPOOFED FINGER BIOMETRICS WITH FEATURE SELECTION

Author: Asish Bera, Debotosh Bhattacharjee, Hubert PH Shum

Published In: Expert Systems with Applications

Publishing Year: 2021

Journal Impact Factor: 5.452

Abstract:

This paper presents a human verification scheme in two independent stages to overcome the vulnerabilities of attacks and to enhance security. At the first stage, a hand image-based CAPTCHA (HandCAPTCHA) is tested to avert automated bot-attacks on the subsequent biometric stage. In the next stage, finger biometric verification of a legitimate user is performed with presentation attack detection (PAD) using the real hand images of the person who has passed a random HandCAPTCHA challenge.

PATTERN OF LOCAL GRAVITATIONAL FORCE(PLGF): A NOVEL LOCAL IMAGE DESCRIPTOR

Author: Debotosh Bhattacharjee, Hiranmoy Roy

Published In: IEEE TPAMI

Publishing Year: 2019

Journal Impact Factor: 17.861

Abstract:

This paper presents a novel local image descriptor called Pattern of Local Gravitational Force (PLGF). It is inspired by Law of Universal Gravitation. PLGF is a hybrid descriptor, which is a combination of two feature components: one is the Pattern of Local Gravitational Force Magnitude (PLGFM), and another is Pattern of Local Gravitational Force Angle (PLGFA). PLGFM encodes the local gravitational force magnitude, and PLGFA encodes the local gravitational force angle that the center pixel exerts on all other pixels within a local neighborhood. We propose a novel noise resistance and the edge-preserving binary pattern called neighbors to center difference binary pattern (NCDBP) for gravitational force magnitude encoding.

SUSPICIOUS-REGION SEGMENTATION FROM BREAST THERMOGRAM USING DLPE-BASED LEVEL SET METHOD

Author: Sourav Pramanik, Debapriya Banik, Debotosh Bhattacharjee, Mita Nasipuri, Mrinal Kanti Bhowmik, Gautam Majumdar

Published In: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Publishing Year: 2018

Journal Impact Factor: 6.685

Abstract:

Segmentation of suspicious regions (SRs) of a thermal breast image (TBI) is a very significant and challenging problem for the identification of breast cancer. Therefore, in this work, we have proposed an active contour model for the segmentation of the SRs in TBI. The proposed segmentation method combines three significant steps. First, a novel method, called smaller-peaks corresponding to the high-intensity-pixels and the centroid-knowledge of SRs (SCH-CS), is proposed to approximately locate the SRs, whose contours are later used as the initial evolving curves of the level set method (LSM). Second, a new energy functional, called different local priorities embedded (DLPE), is proposed regarding the level set function. DLPE is then minimized using the interleaved level set evolution to segment the potential SRs in TBI more accurately. Finally, a new stopping criterion is incorporated into the proposed LSM. The proposed LSM not only increases the segmentation speed but also ameliorates the segmentation accuracy.

GAMMADION BINARY PATTERN OF SHEARLET COEFFICIENTS (GBPSC): AN ILLUMINATION-INVARIANT HETEROGENEOUS FACE DESCRIPTOR

Author: Subhadeep Koley, Hiranmoy Roy, Debotosh Bhattacharjee

Published In: Pattern Recognition Letters

Publishing Year: 2021

Journal Impact Factor: 3.255

Abstract:

This paper presents a novel face image descriptor called Gammadion Binary Pattern of Shearlet Coefficients (GBPSC) for illumination and noise invariant, homogeneous and heterogeneous face recognition. Exploiting the energy concentration property of the Digital Shearlet Transform, an efficient illumination and noise invariant feature extractor has been devised. Finally, inspired by the Gammadion structure, a robust multi-directional local binary pattern named Gammadion Binary Pattern (GBP) has been proposed. GBP is applied on the previously extracted illumination and noise invariant feature map to generate the GBPSC images.

LOCAL-GRAVITY-FACE (LG-FACE) FOR ILLUMINATION-INVARIANT AND HETEROGENEOUS FACE RECOGNITION

Author: Hiranmoy Roy, Debotosh Bhattacharjee

Published In: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Publishing Year: 2016

Journal Impact Factor: 6.013

Abstract:

This paper proposes a novel method called local-gravity-face (LG-face) for illumination-invariant and heterogeneous face recognition (HFR). LG-face employs a concept called the local gravitational force angle (LGFA). The LGFA is the direction of the gravitational force that the center pixel exerts on the other pixels within a local neighborhood. A theoretical analysis shows that the LGFA is an illumination-invariant feature, considering only the reflectance part of the local texture effect of the neighboring pixels. It also preserves edge information.

MSPSF: A MULTI-SCALE LOCAL INTENSITY MEASUREMENT FUNCTION FOR SEGMENTATION OF BREAST THERMOGRAM

Author: Sourav Pramanik, Debotosh Bhattacharjee, Mita Nasipuri

Published In: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Publishing Year: 2020

Journal Impact Factor: 3.658

Abstract:

Accurate segmentation of region(s) of abnormality (RoAs) in a grayscale breast thermogram is an essential step in the automated identification of cancer in the breast. However, low contrast, intensity nonuniformity, noise, and complex background pose challenges to this segmentation task. To overcome those challenges, a novel segmentation method that amalgamates the breast blood perfusion (BBP) model, an adaptive triangular histogram-based thresholding (ATHT) method, and a new energy functional-based level set method (LSM) is proposed here. The BBP model improves the contrast between the RoA and normal tissue region in grayscale breast thermogram. The ATHT method is used for robust initialization of the proposed LSM.